Data Leaks For Dummies
- 6h 38m
- Gareth Fraser-King, Guy Bunker
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2009
Data leaks expose your customers to identity theft and your business to security risks. But how do you set up a data loss prevention plan? Start with Data Leaks For Dummies!
Now more than ever, it’s critical to keep your company data locked up tighter than Fort Knox. Data Leaks For Dummies has the scoop on what’s at risk, how leaks happen, how to keep your data safe without being inflexible, and even what to do if the worst happens. It shows you how to:
- Identify risk by learning to see your data the way a criminal would
- Recognize how innocent mistakes, common carelessness, and malicious insiders also pose a threat
- Learn how to defend against phishing, e-mail threats, and wireless security breaches
- Be alert for social engineering attacks, suspicious contract workers, dumpster divers, and plain old eavesdroppers
- Plan for safe disposal of old hardware, use caution with SMS and e-mail archives, and be aware of how Webcasts and conference calls can be invaded
- Discover how crooks steal data in public places such as Internet cafes
- Develop a recovery plan, build a team, and even manage press coverage should data loss occur
You’ll learn why free data storage devices could cost you a lot, how to protect mobile devices, why data corruption might be even worse than data loss, and how you can help software developers build safer applications. Data Leaks For Dummies will help you protect your customers, the reputation of your business, and your bottom line.
About the Authors
Dr. Guy Bunker is a Distinguished Engineer at Symantec Corporation. He is responsible for technical strategy for the security and compliance management group and runs a number of research projects around security, data loss prevention, and intelligent archiving. Guy has worked for Symantec (formerly VERITAS) for twelve years in a number of product groups and roles, including as CTO of the Application and Service Management Product Group. He has been a member of a number of industry bodies driving standards in computer storage and management and is currently an active member of the Enterprise Privacy Group and the Jericho forum. Prior to Symantec he worked for Oracle and had his own consulting business.
Guy is a regular presenter at many conferences across the globe, including InfoSec, StorageExpo, the SNIA Technical Forum, Enterprise Architecture, Storage Networking World, Linux on Wall Street, and the Symantec user conference, Vision. He is regularly invited to give keynote presentations on data loss and governance, risk, and compliance. Guy is frequently in the press and media commenting on the latest security issues and scandals!
This is Guy’s third book; the previous two were on Utility Computing. The second, Delivering Utility Computing: Business-driven IT Optimization, co-authored with Darren Thomson, is seen as a definitive text and was published by Wiley in 2006. Guy earned a PhD in Artificial Neural Networks from King’s College London, holds several patents, and is a Chartered Engineer with the IET.
Gareth Fraser-King is a twenty-year-plus industry veteran, the last ten with Symantec, with extensive experience in enterprise IT, producing high level messaging, white papers, articles, presentations, and marketing deliverables, and a John Wiley & Co. author of Data LifeCycles: Managing Data for Strategic Advantage. He has worked extensively across EMEA in technical support, product marketing, technical authoring, business development, and quality management. Acknowledged by his customers and colleagues as a guru who understands business requirements across international markets, he has the ability to take complex product solutions and ensure that they can be understood by all — from the sales force to customers, from CEOs to IT administrators. He can capture the essence of new products and features and explain them in simple and memorable ways, tying the technology to business problems and solutions. His perceptive views of markets and technology provide a valuable input to Symantec’s technical strategy and direction.
In this Book
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Data Leaks for Dummies
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Introduction
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Defining Data Loss
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Examining Your Data Environment
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Governance, Risk, and Compliance
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Data Loss and You
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Calculating the Value of Your Data
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The Price of Your Data to Others
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IT Security
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Protecting the Endpoint
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USB Devices and Removable Media
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Mobile Phones and PDAs
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Geography
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Keeping the Bad Stuff Out
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Keeping the Good Stuff In
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Protecting Your Data Center
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Authorization and Access Control
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Backup and Archiving
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Protection through Web Applications
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Making Applications Safer
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Losses from the Unlikeliest Places
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Revisiting Policies
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Technology Is Not a Silver Bullet
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Long-Term Prevention
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Partners and Suppliers
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In the Event of Data Loss
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Preparing for the Future
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Ten Tips to Prevent Data Loss Today
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Ten Common Mistakes
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Ten Tips to Protect Data at Home
